-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Breaking: Activision Planning 'Call of Duty Cinematic Universe'
- Thread starter PhantomX1313
- Start date
- Status
Wanda/Wander
Member
PhantomX1313
Member
They are putting up writers room same like Kong/Godzilla, Transformers but no word on names though it's just a Matter of time before Micheal Bay approaches them
Mechanized
Member
Striking while the iron is hot!
I get what you're saying, but COD is still gigantic, and Jason Bourne, Lord of the Rings, Dune, Bond etc etc. are not reliant on current hype. Entire marvel universe is based on comic books that sell very low numbers, but have great characxters and recognition. Cod just hgas to tell big, awesome stories, IMO. Cast great characters and isn't even as reliant on canon as a Marvel or LOTR.
Capture the tone and excitement.
Probably because Hollywood would need to actually put effort into a Halo movie.
Seems like a reboot of the announce which is normal in Hollywood where pace can be slowed by development
You got a problem with me Sinkles?
Monocle
Member
Yeah, seriously.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
I still want a Halo movie please.
ShinySylvee
Member
Honestly don't think that it's a terrible idea as far as source material goes but I really feel that this is going to end up coming out 3-5 years too late. CoD isn't the king of the medium like they used to be and are likely only going to decrease in relevance by the time the movies come out.
PhantomX1313
Member
And by this thread just a reminder we are still waiting for NFS Cinematic Universe movie 2, that movie was damn fine
brickarts295
Member
I'm down for a Black Ops and Modern Warfare movie.
KraftyKrankins
Member
Honestly, the only thing this franchise needs to have is good action scenes and a decent story.
Gareth Evans it is.
Gareth Evans it is.
I don't understand how this would work.
If you literally just make a Call of Duty movie, all you have is a pretty generic war movie. The game does not have an identity beyond "gritty war fighting, sometimes in a historical setting, usually in a contemporary one, and rarely in a futuristic one. And there is very little they can do in terms of set pieces that is crazier than what has happened in the games so far.
What is there to Call of Duty other than "shoot that guy", which is what a significant portion of Hollywood movies are in the first place? And is shoot that guy really enough to compete with transforming robots and brightly costumed super freaks and hyper cool muscle weirdos in hyper cool muscle cars? What can they possibly do to make this unique or interesting? Turn it into R-Rated GI Joe? Make a bunch of really subversive shit with salient political points disguised as good action movies? What is this even!?
If you literally just make a Call of Duty movie, all you have is a pretty generic war movie. The game does not have an identity beyond "gritty war fighting, sometimes in a historical setting, usually in a contemporary one, and rarely in a futuristic one. And there is very little they can do in terms of set pieces that is crazier than what has happened in the games so far.
What is there to Call of Duty other than "shoot that guy", which is what a significant portion of Hollywood movies are in the first place? And is shoot that guy really enough to compete with transforming robots and brightly costumed super freaks and hyper cool muscle weirdos in hyper cool muscle cars? What can they possibly do to make this unique or interesting? Turn it into R-Rated GI Joe? Make a bunch of really subversive shit with salient political points disguised as good action movies? What is this even!?
John Kowalski
Banned
Kind of weird to think that the COD games were originally designed to work as videogame versions of war movies, and are now being translated back into movies about war videogames.
I just know that eventually Nova and Squirrel Girl wil have to team up to defeat you and your fabulous mitten.
If you knew anything about me, you would know I would take the Starbrand over the infinity gauntlet
Everybody wants to be Marvel, but nobody wants to put in the work.
Not if Spitfire and the Troubleshooters have anything to say about it!
Jorok Goldblade
Member
Psst...
Hey, Activision...
You need more than one property to make a "Cinematic Universe"
Hey, Activision...
You need more than one property to make a "Cinematic Universe"
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
At least Forward Unto Dawn was pretty solid. Better than any theatrical game adaptation, by a wide margin.
andythinkpad
Member
Breaking news? It's not a police chase.
This will piss me off till the day I die. And after that till the end of time.
It's likeable yeah, but it's not the same thing. A CGI adaptation of the Fall of Reach would have been a great start...
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
I assume Jai Courtney's agent has a Google Alert set so he knows when generic action movie roles are coming up.
I liked Jai Courtney in Suicide Squad.
I also liked Jai Courtney in Terminator Genysis.
I also liked Suicide Squad.
I also liked Terminator Genysis.
I have not seen Die Hard 5, and it cannot possibly be more boring than Die Hard 1.
That exists.
2Smashed4U
Banned
This is the most annoying thing about modern Hollywood to me.
Because making a hit movie is no longer satisfactory enough, every movie needs to have an expanded universe so they can make BILLIONS of dollars, instead of mere hundreds of millions.
Thank the gods of capitalism, the quality of movies have been sacrificed at the alter of unlimited growth forever.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
It's a 30-minute motion comic. I don't think that really qualifies as what the poster was requesting.
Also, it was really bad.
^^
I'm still surprised they haven't done a CGI movie on anything in the Haloverse yet...I assume because it is prohibitively expensive. But that would be one way to test the waters, so to speak.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I mean, yeah, it would be prohibitively expensive. Unless you wanted it to look super cheap and be devoid of any interesting action. And honestly, the box office ceiling on that would be really, really low. I couldn't imagine it doing too much better than like, Beowulf. Animation not explicitly aimed at children just doesn't do well, especially if it's not comedy, especially outside of Japan. And Japan has no interest in Halo anyway. Even if it's good you're still likely looking at a Spirits Within level disaster.
It would be cheaper and far less risky to do just do a tightly budgeted live action film.
Extra Sauce
Member
So Forward Unto Dawn then. Unless they take a big risk. But at the rate at which the franchise is losing mindshare in the public (relatively quickly), the longer the wait the less they'll get as a return.
Should have been done 5 years ago at the latest.
More on topic; COD4/MW2 would be great flicks if done properly. COD4 especially has a lot of unique set pieces that may translate well onto camera, and unlike MW2 it isn't 100% Red Dawn implausible.
- Status